A Creole stew, Gumbo is usually made with tomatoes, okra, and other vegetables and meats Gumbo usually starts with a roux as the thickener, and filé powder is often added just before serving Recipe: Gumbos and Roux
Peculiar, fine-grained, highly plastic, silt-clay soils which become pervious and soapy, or waxy and sticky, when saturated
A thick soup prepared with seafood or game, countless spices, vegetable, & served over rice It is thickened with file or okra
A thick, robust soup sometimes thickened with okra or file' There are thousands of variations, such as shrimp or seafood gumbo, chicken or duck gumbo, okra and file' gumbo
tall coarse annual of Old World tropics widely cultivated in southern United States and West Indies for its long mucilaginous green pods used as basis for soups and stews; sometimes placed in genus Hibiscus
long mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews
any of various fine-grained silty soils that become waxy and very sticky mud when saturated with water
A thick Southern style soup/stew made with meat, poultry, fish, shellfish or vegetables Served over plain white rice Okra, filé powder, and roux All methods are acceptable, and all are considered traditional
In parts of the United States, gumbo is another name for okra. In soil science, any of various fine-grained, rich, black, alluvial soils, especially of the central U.S., that when wet become impenetrable and soapy or waxy and very sticky. When dried, gumbo "bakes" and becomes extremely hard
a soup or stew thickened with okra pods long mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews any of various fine-grained silty soils that become waxy and very sticky mud when saturated with water